Claude Lefort et Cornelius Castoriadis : regards croisés sur Mai 68

Comme tous les moments révolutionnaires, Mai 68 n'est jamais complètement passé : il reste vivant pour la pensée politique contemporaine. En 1968, Cornelius Castoriadis et Claude Lefort, deux des principaux penseurs politiques de la France de l'après-guerre, proposaient leurs lectures des événements de Mai en France dans un livre important : Mai 68 : la Brèche. Pour le vingtième anniversaire des événements, ils écrivaient à nouveau sur ceux-ci, en cherchant à examiner leur postérité à la fois sociale et intellectuelle. Ces interprétations de Mai 68 font apparaître des convergences aussi bien que des oppositions théoriques entre les deux auteurs, qui concernent aussi bien le rôle de l'intellectuel que les définitions de la révolution, du pouvoir et de la démocratie. Mai 68 sert ainsi de révélateur, qui éclaire des aspects importants du dissensus politique et théorique qui a opposé Castoriadis à Lefort dès les années 1950.

Land deed between Daniel Cline and Cornelius Benner, 1839

A land deed for a parcel of land in the district of Niagara purchased by Daniel Cline and his wife Jamima for the sum of two hundred pounds. The land purchased involved lot numbers 5 and 6 in the 2nd concession in the Township of Humberstone, County of Lincoln, District of Niagara. The land was sold by Cornelius Benner and the deed is dated January 17, 1839.

Tacitus' Germania and the Jesuit Relations: Intertextuality in the Transatlantic World of the Early Jesuits in New France.

The first Europeans who wrote about the Indigenous people of the newly discovered Americas, not only used medieval, but also classical literature as a tool of reference to describe 'otherness.' As true humanists, the French Jesuits who arrived in the New World were deeply influenced by their classical education and, as claimed by Grafton, reverted to ancient ethnographic texts, like Tacitus' Germania, to support their analyse of the Indigenous people they encountered. Books talk to books. Inspired by Germania, the early French Jesuits managed to convey to their readers a subtle critique of their own civilization, enhancing, like Tacitus, the virtuous aspect of the so-called barbarians they described while illustrating the corruption of their respective civilized worlds. This thesis suggests that the essence of Tacitus' work is definitively present in Pierre Biard's letters and his Relation. His testimonies illustrate the connection the early French Jesuits had with the humanist thought of their time.

Indenture between George Rykert and Cornelius Stovin

Indenture between George Rykert, surveyor of Grantham, and Cornelius Stovin, manager of the Welland Railway of St. Catharines, for a pew in St. George’s Church, Jan. 1863.

Letter to Mr. Bradley from Cornelius Smith of Smith and Wilkins

Letter to Mr. Bradley from Cornelius Smith of Smith and Wilkins regarding money owed by Mickel Cumrfoord [Michael Cumerford] (1 ½ pages, handwritten), Sept. 28, 1838.

Reflexões sobre a "criação histórica" e a democracia a partir de Claude Lefort e de Cornelius Castoriadis

Esta dissertação consiste num estudo acerca das questões da história e da democracia a partir do pensamento de Claude Lefort e de Cornelius Castoriadis. Vinculado ao exame da questão da história, o estudo da questão da democracia, nos faz “pensar o político” numa perspectiva distinta daquela referente aos campos da ciência e da sociologias políticas. Campos nos quais o político é tratado como algo que pode ser apreendido a partir de um saber prévio e exaustivo sobre os processos políticos e sociais. Refletir sobre a questão da história e da democracia significa, nesse sentido, conceber a distinção entre o político e a política enquanto algo que nos remete à uma “maneira singular” de relacionamento entre os homens e o “poder explícito” na sociedade. Maneira essa que pressupõe, por sua vez, a existência de uma sociedade na qual a política é reconhecida como uma atividade que pode educar cidadãos enquanto indivíduos efetivamente “livres e responsáveis”.